Medicine and Health Links
From El Dorado High School Library
The sites listed here are meant to supplement and support the
books in our library. You may go directly to any of the sections
listed below:
Medicine and Disease |
Health and Fitness |
Health Careers |
Anatomy and Physiology |
- ROP Medical Career Tech Testing
- Check with your instructor for Participant IDs and Passwords.
- Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology
- Find practice quizzes, animations, interactive learning exercises, and other study tools, to help you with your Medical Arts and Science course work.
- Center For Disease Control
- "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people - at home and abroad, providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships." The website provides information on diseases of all kinds.
- WebMD - Health
- All sorts of information on diseases and conditions as well as a medical library.
- MEDLINEplus Health Information
- Information on conditions, diseases and wellness, plus a medical encyclopedia, drug information, dictionary, directories, and links to other useful sites.
- The Merck Manual
- An extensive searchable medical reference work online.
- Yahoo! - Health - Medicine
- Choose from more than 100 medical categories, and be directed to dozens of sites about each topic.
- Virtual Hospital
- The Virtual Hospital is a digital health sciences library. It's purpose is to provide rapid, convenient access to health care information for both health care providers and patients.
- National Institutes of Health
- Find information on everything from health information to career options at this site from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
- HealthLinks.net
- This is an online health information directory and guide.
- MD Multimedia
- Use the Audio Visual button to take you to slides, photos and video clips of medical procedures. The site is from Canada, so you will find information in both English and French.
- Praxis.MD Best Health Guide
- Clinical reference providing answers for patients.
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- Nutritional Analysis Tools and System
- Use this site to analyze your own diet.
- AFPA
- Health Articles
- "American Fitness Professionals and Associates offers over
600 articles on health and fitness. You can search by topic
or content in order to locate the information that you are looking
for."
- Yahoo! News - Health
- Daily news about health and fitness issues.
- Yahoo! - Health - News and Media
- A good place to start for health and fitness news.
- HealthWorld Online
- "HealthWorld Online is your 24-hour health resource center--a virtual health village where you can access information, products, and services to help create your wellness-based lifestyle."
- MEDLINEplus: Exercise/Fitness
- News, overviews, nutrition information, research, articles
on specific conditions (like exercising with asthma), and much
more.
- The Exercise and Physical Fitness Page
- "Our goal is to provide research-based exercise and fitness information."
- Self.com
- The online fitness magazine.
- U.S. Army Physical Fitness School
- "Military Physical Training should wake soldiers up mentally, fill soldiers with enthusiasm, build soldiers up physically, and discipline them." -Koehler's West Point Manual (1919)
- Health Careers
- Health Careers An Internet Resource Guide for High School Students
- Occupational Outlook Handbook
- "The Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations."
- Health Careers Information Center
- "When you think of health careers, what do you visualize? Doctors? Nurses? Math? Science? That is only the “tip of the iceberg” in health services – there is a huge variety of occupations in the health industry. You can find a career just right for you in health care!"
- Links to Medical and Health Career Descriptions
- "Part One: General and Comprehensive Lists. Careers in Medicine and Health-related Fields. Part Two: Alphabetical Listings of Specific Medical and Veterinary Occupations."
- Health Career Center
- Figuring out which healthcare career or health occupation to pursue, or simply finding a good job, can be a difficult and time consuming endeavor. Healthcareercenter.org was created to help aspiring healthcare and medical students and job seekers make better, more informed career choices by providing them with highly relevant, reliable and up-to-date job search, career development, and employment information.
- JobStar: Job Search Guide
- Find everything from specific job guides to resume writing information, and lots of stuff specific to California. There is also information on the "hidden" job market and the international job market, for those of you who have a yen to travel.
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Yahoo! Science > Anatomy
- Another of Yahoo's great compendiums of specialized sites,
this one just on human anatomy.
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About>Homework Help> Biology
- About's Homework Help site has compiled this list of best
sites for anatomy and physiology.
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Visible Human Project
- "The Visible Human Project® has created a complete, anatomically
detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male
and female human bodies."
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Anatomy & Physiology Tutorials
- These interactive tutorials are a great way to learn the
parts of many of the body systems.
- Human Anatomy
Online
- An interactive site with "animations, 100’s of graphics,
and thousands of descriptive links."
- Digital
Anatomist Interactive Atlas
- This award winning site contains 2-D and 3-D views of body
systems from cadaver sections, MRI scans, and computer reconstructions.
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BodyQuest
- BodyQuest is an exploration of anatomy design for and by
students. It a part of the ThinkQuest Library.
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WebPath: The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
- "This popular web resource includes over 1900 images along
with text, tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination
items for self-assessment that demonstrate gross and microscopic
pathologic findings associated with human disease conditions."
Included along with general pathology and systems pathology,
are tutorials and practice tests.
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